Rare Orchid saved by Byron protesters
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A rare tiny orchid survives near the Paterson St Lookout just down from the iconic Byron Bay Lighthouse.
The fact that it and other wildlife continue to survive is contingent on a protest against development that Byron residents staged twenty years ago. Central to the protest was a broadcast from Bay FM that morning.
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